Human Rights, Ecological Wisdom Go Hand in Hand

“Poverty is the worst environmental pollution,” said Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. Since then her statement has been quoted and interpreted by many. What did she mean? Did...

Who Owns the Earth? Many of Us Don’t Know.

According to the story, President Lyndon B. Johnson was walking across the tarmac toward a plane when one of his assistants informed him that the plane he was walking toward was not his.  LBJ’s response was, “They’re all mine, son.” Perhaps...

Our Disposable Lifestyle Accumulates Lots of Trash

After many of us eat fast-food, we throw away the cardboard pizza boxes, Styrofoam burger bins, wax-coated drink cups, plastic utensils and foil condiment containers. More often than not, we discard absolutely everything in which our food was served. What is worse,...